μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • IrishBeal XXI 330
  • SpanishEspinosa Jr. 91–93
  • Jewish*Neuman.
Within the index

Filed under Devil. (The Devil, Satan, The Bad Man, Old Nick, etc.) Not clearly differentiated, especially in German tradition, from the stupid ogre. (See also F531 (Giant), G100–199 and G500–699.)

7 finer motifs beneath it
Devil wooes an innkeeper's daughterDevil marries a widow who maltreats himDevil marries old maid who proves to be a termagant and a miserDevil visits woman and founds a family. (Cf. G303.11.)Devil marries girlDevil in guise of woman woos manDevil's sexual relations with mortals
Filed beside it
The origin of the devil and his companionsNames applied to the devilForms in which the devil appearsThe devil's physical characteristicsHow the devil is dressedCircumstances of the devil's appearanceHow the devil travelsDevil's expulsion from heaven and his present hauntsDeeds of the devilAllies and possessions of the devilThe relatives of the devilThe stupid devilDevil's unfinished work cannot be completed by human hands. One stone missing in church, etcPlaces haunted by the devilHow the devil's power may be escaped or avoidedThe devil's disappearance from the world
Travels with
Task: selling three old women. (Devil finds that no one wants them.)The evil woman in the glass case as the last commodity. The man is to belong to the devil as soon as he has sold his goods. If he has any goods that no one will buy, he is to be free. The man puts an evil old woman in a glass case. When the devil sees her, he recognizes her. "Whoever knows her will refuse to buy her." The man goes freeDevil frightened by threatening to bring mother-in-lawBelfagor. The devil frightened by the shrewish wife. A man persuades his shrewish wife to let herself be lowered into a well. When he comes to pull her out he raises a genie (devil) who is glad to escape from the woman. Later he frightens the devil by telling him that his wife has escaped

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